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"Buy Oregon " Keynote of Oregon Products Day? f Campaign This Week The Weather Forecast: Insettled with rain to night and Saturday. Moderate tem perature. Highest yesterday M Lowest this m orn I nj... .............. .. 41 M edford Mail Ti ;ibune WINNER Pulitzer Award FOR 1934 Twenty-ninth Year MEDFOKD, OREGON, FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 23, 193-1. No. 210. MBSIfl TO KM FBMHCE B MS . . . non r vmmn VOTE HUGE FUND FORM Chamber of Deputies Told Germany Preparing for Conflict Danger to Na tion Topic Hot Discussion ny JOHN EVANS As&oflaled Press Foreign Staff (Copyright, 1934, by the Associated Press) PARIS. Nov. 23. (AP) the French ehamber of deputies today voted to spend approximately 1427.000.000 for military purposes next year, after It had been told that Germany was preparing for war and that Russia would back up Trance in the event war came. The alleged entente with, Russia was dented by government officials, but it was given on the floor of the chamber by Leon Archlmbaud. the reporter for the finance committee as he presented the nation's war bud get to parliament. Deputies and cabinet ministers talked heatedly., of their fear that France was not safe. "Must Be On Guard" Gen. Louis Maurin, minister of war, declared: "I do not say that If you wish for peace, prepare for war; I simply say we must be on our guard." The deputies agreed to the war ministry's request passing a war budget of 5.6B9.O00.00O francs ($374. 336.200) then adding their approval of an emergency appropriation of 800,000,000 francs 52 ,640,000.) This latter appropriation Is to be spent for new fighting equipment. The vot- U. S. Abandons Hope Naval Pact; Japan Provides Huge Arms Outlay OF 5-5-3 PACT NEXT STEP IS (Continued on Payc Eleven) ON BONUS SMS LEGION LEADER INDIANAPOLIS, Ind., Nov. 23. (AP) The American Legion na tional executive committee lute this afternoon reconsidered Its selection of dates for the 1035 convention to he held In St. Louis and finally determined upon the last week In September for the gathering. The conven tion will be held September 23 to 36 Inclusive. It had been an nounced earlier that the conven tion would he held the fim week In October. Looks to Uncle Sam. GLASGOW. Scotland, Nov. 23. (AP)Stanley Baldwin, president ot the British privy council, declared in a speech here tonight: "Never as an Individual will I sanction the British navy being u&ed for the armed blockade of any coun try In the world until I know what the United States Is going to do." He was addressing a crowd ol 1000 persons -in a meeting ar ranged by the Scottish Unionist association. He asserted that there never would be a league of nations with the power and influence it should have until the United States be came a member of that body. LONDON, Nov. 23. (AP) An au thoritative source stated today that the United States delegation to the preliminary naval conversations have virtually abandoned hope of reach ing a naval agreement, at least for the present, with Great Britain and Japan. Although the conversations will continue, it was said that the Amer icans feel that there Is no possibility of a compromise agreement being reached, t The United States delegates be lieve that the next step will be a denunciation by Japan of the Wash ington treaty of 1922, forcing the five signatories of that treaty the United States, Great Britain. Japan. France and Italy to start from scratch In a consideration of the Idea of naval limitation. The Americans expect to be home by Christmas. The British and American delega tions to the preliminary naval con- (Continued on Page Fivs; MYSTERY OF GALAPAGOS THIRST VICTIMS SOLVED fx H i sf , ) ii ir I .Si Baroness I)e Wagner Alfred Rudolph Lorcni INDIANAPOLIS, Nov. 23. (AP) j There will be no compromise on the I bonus question, declared Vilas W. Wsley, of Racine, Wis., chairman or ' the legislative committee of the American Legion, in presenting his j report to the national executive com- j jnittee here today. Whs ley said that since the pass-1 age or resolutions at the recent Miami convention advocating Imme diate cash payment of the adjusted service certificates. the reaction throughout the country had been ! very satisfactory. James A- Drain of Spokane, Wash.. t former national commander of the Legion, today was appointed nation al treasurer and national Judge ad vocate of the organization. He succeeds Neal Girder of In dianapolis as treasurer and Remster Blneham, also of Indianapolis, as Judge avocate. Frank E. Samuel of Indianapolis was reappointed national adjutant: Thcmas M. Owen. Jr.. of Montgom ery, Ala . national historian, and Vic tor McKenzle of Portland, Oregon, national llason officer. By WALIfcK B. CLAUSES Associated Press Staff Writer. (Copyright, 1934, by the Associated Press) ABOARD THE TUNA CLIPPER NORTHWESTERN, in Pacific Waters, Nov. 23. ( AP) Ths strangest tale that ever came out of the old pirate archipelago of Galapagos today gave the solution or the death mystery at the equator. - Captain Fred Ostrem, in the helm house of this clipper, today Identi fied the bodies found last Saturday, dead from thirst and starvation on the volcanic beach of bleak, water less Marchena Island, at the equator. They were Arthur Estampa, 34. Norwegian of Indefatigable Island, friend of Col. Theodore Roosevelt, Jr., and Vincent Astor, and Alfrea Rudolph Lorenz, deserted companion of the Baroness Elolse Bonsquet de Wagner, Captain Ostrem said. Prisoner of Baroness. Estampa's friendship for Lorenz began when . the Parisian released him one morning after the Norwe gian had been held prisoner for three days by the baroness. The Norwelgan' skipper was so afraid of the baroness and her com panions that he did not return to the Island from whence he got his I fresh meat for . the. little, colony, at Academy Bay, some 40 miles north, j until he learned that the baroness (had vanished from the old convict island of Charles. Captain Ostrem said that the radio description to the Associated Press HE AND it FOR Having asked for a preliminary hearing. Beulah Wilcox, 18. of this city, charged with possession of Bnd lne findln(f 0( the bundle ot titolen property in connection with j 0Rby clotnes coVinced him beyond the burglary of Mann's department aU doubt thflt E8tampa WM tnfli re store last October 24. was being heldiond vtctim of thl8 caatflWfly tragedy in the county Jail today while u-!on the lonely Marchena Island, thorities prepared to set a dat for I , , , her appearance, The district attorney given a complete story and Indicated that theft of tin estimated 1500 worth of merchandise was a minor one. Leonard Clark and Stanley Howard, both of this city, two men Implicat ed In the robbery, were bound over to the grand Jury on 92000 bond ; after waiving preliminary hearing Wednesday, PORTLAND. Not. 23. T) E- L King, superintendent of the Portland division of the Southern Pacific rail road. Mid today that studies had been made here to determine whet ner economies might b effected .n switching and hauling operations at several lumber mills in southern Ore gon. The survey wm made under authorization of the federal rail ro id coordinator. At the present time some mills a Hound far Home. The baby clothes, said Capt. Ostrem, were no doubt these of the Wittman family, on Charles Island, and that Estampa was bound back to his home, and his wife Agnes who joined htm on Indefatigable Island, also known as Santa Cruz, when with Lorenz as passenger he became ship wrecked on the treacherous reef on the southeast end of Marchena island. "Hearing of the departure of the aronesa, reported last June,' saia Capt. Ostrem, "Estampa returned to Charles Island for the first visit since his dramatic Imprisonment. He went there for fresh meat. It was the only place he could get it. Letters Explained. "Tills would explain also the pres ence of the letters written by Mar garet Wittmer, found by the ele ment ravaged bodies on blesk Marchena. "When he got the letters he evi dently also obtained the baby clothes for his wife, there being no other infant clothes in the archipelago He could get the letters Into the mall sooner than from Charles Island, "Lorenz went with him. either to remain In the Academy bay settle ment. or to await there a boat to take him back to the mainland." TO EXPENDITURE OF BILLION YEN Bt GLENN BARB Associated Press Foreign Staff TOKYO, Nov. 23. (AP) Japan met "the International situation" today the oriental empire granted its army and navy the most money ever al lotted Its military machines. More than one billion yen (about 390.000.000) will go to the national defense in one year. This la 46 per cent of the total budget of 3,310, 000.000 yen (approximately 1640.900, 000) and a 9 per cent Increase over the current appropriation. A weary cabinet which had been In session for 14 hours approved the figures this morning, ending the long and heated "battle of the budget." It was a victory for the army and navy, which had fought with propaganda for months for larger and better equipped forces. General Seiijuro Hayashl, minister of war, threatened to resign If his demands were not met. He and Ad miral Mlneo Osuml, minister of the navy, told the cabinet "the Interna tional situation must be considered." The navy had contended It must be built up fxilly to the limits of the London treaty by the end ot 1936 in order to be strategically placed for a building race which might follow a possible breakdown In present treaties and negotiations. War office statements had said the army should bo prepared for any eventualities on the continent and that Soviet Russia still menaced Jap. anese Interests In the orient. These arguments In the end over came the resistance of Sanenobu Fu Jll, minister of finance, who attempt ed In vain to keep the defense appro. prlatlons within the limits of the current budget. COASTAL TOWNS E BY HUGEMES! Tillamook Lighthouse Bat-1 tered for Second Time by Mountainous Seas Trees Litter Coast. Highways $107,969 PROFIT PORTLAND, Or., Nov. 23. (AP) Tremendous waves that for two days had crashed heavily upon the Ore gon coastline subsided today and several coastal towns undertook a survey of storm damage. For the second time this fall, the lighthouse service reported, waves broke over the Tillamook rock light house off the Oregon coast. Henry Jenkins, acting principal keeper, in a wireless message to the superintendent here, said heavy seas swept over the rock all day yester day, and at 8 p.m. the waves began breaking over the light tower, 133 feet above sea level. It was believed here no damage of consequence had been. done. Several weeks ago more than a dozen huge panes In the light were smashed by the battering sea. lebrts Stalls Trnln. Near the town of Tillamook a freight train was delayed while the crew removed driftwood, rocks and debris which the sea had swept upon the tracks. A lightning storm accompanied the gale and a school- house belfry near Tillamook was riven by a bolt.' The Oregon coast hhway, paral leling the seal 1 he, was littered with fallen trees and limbs, but wai readily cleared by road crews. . Htnrm Subsides, R. n. Tinkham, -district superln tend en t of lighthouses, said that while he had had no direct commu nication from Tillamook light this morning, the weather had moderated greatly and the barometer was rising. The nine men employed at the light tt-er In no peril, Tinkham said. although with the high waves pound ing around the tower, they were Isolated from the world. The superin tendent said he was assured that yesterday's storm did not damage the huge light. Boy 14, Man 68, . Proud Fathers Of Fort Worth TORT WORTH, T., Hot. 33. UPl Thar r two proud new father In Port Worth on, 1 Tear, old, th other 08. Th 14-year-old father and hl 14-year-old wife had the dtatlno tlon ot being the youngest parent on record in Fort worth. They are Mr. and Mra. Henry Bert Mulllaa. Their !i-pound baby, Ellen Mane. U healthy and well, and ao la the mother. The 68-year-old father la J. J. Langever, prominent buslneas man of Fort Worth, now retired. ASSESSOR LISTS SPECIAL LEVIES School district special tax levies for the coming year for Jackson county have been compiled by the assessor's office. Decreases over last year are shown In a majority of the rural dis tricts and In most of the cities. The total amount to be raised is Mfift, 606.10. Last year It was 406,431.71. The levy la a school district tax and docs not Include the stata and county school taxes, which have not yetbeen compiled. The district tax for the Medford school district Is 24.1 mills, a 1.0 mill Increase over last year. The amount to be raised Is $201,982.46. The highest special, school levy In the county rests with the Butte Palls district. It Is 25.1 mills, a reduction of .3 of a mill over last year. The am6unt to be raised Is 117,248.36. North Phoenix district, with a levy of .1 of a mill, la the lowest. . The amount to be raised Is 110,000.73. The Rogue River district, with an Increase of 7.8 mills, shows the larg est boost. The levy is now 17.8 mills. Last year It was 10.0 mills. The amount to bo raised is 810,000.3. The levy by districts, with last year's mlllage, Is as follows: This Last District . . Year Year Jacksonville .16.8 20.8 Alvin Scott Taken From Roseburg to Portland Held Under $25,000 Bail Hearing Set for Dec. 4 Twelve men from the Ivans Creek CCO camp this afternoon returned to camp after having spent a day and a half digging around and beneath several buildings at the Alvin H. Scott residence on South Peach street, where some of the alleged Ur schel kidnap ransom money was found the night of November 7. Fed eral agents did not dtsclose If any valuable Information had been dis closed by the extensive digging. E ON STATE UQUORICHEST PRESIDENT SH:S. P. STUDIES COST IS. VANDERBILT T T V. N. Clute, prominent hopralfer of the Lower Applegate. was In Med ford today arranging for shipment served by more than one rallroaJ John W. Christian. 34. of 421 plum street, was sentenced to 90 days In the county Jail and fined 123 and costs today in Justice court, having been round guilty ot charges of lar ceny. Christian was arrested yesterday by ttty police for the theft of a Rem ington shotgun which was stolen yesterday afternoon from Lamport's Sporting Goods store. , of 170, bales of hops to Pabst Blue Ribbon Beer Co., or Milwaukee. The shipment Is contracted by the Wil liams and Hsrt agency. Mr. Clute, who has grown hops for the past 25 years. Is trucking the product from "Pernollholme." an Ap-1 King said. A study was made to de termine whethev one road could two over this terminal work on a Joint switching basis, using the tracks of another line and thus eliminating dupllcaton and effecting eeonomin for both roads. BERKELEY GAME RATE ON S. P. ENDS TONIGHT Tonight's southbound train will afford the last opportunity for Med ford football fans to make the trip to Berkeley for the Stanford-University of Cahfonla (t.-m" tomorrow, at trie train rates of ?.Pj mind tr.p The exoir.on may be mae re turn trip any time before Dec. 9. plegate hopyard of approximately 100 acres In (tent that has produced hops for the past 32 years. During the harvest of this year's crop. Mr. Clute said he has employ ed 276 local residents, who have been given a total of 2336 work days In ln,r;.rrr"t.tp FAMED FLIER BURIED fields. Today's shipment Is the first made this year through Medford. although one carload mas sent out recently through Grants Pass. It was found, however, that under section 17 of the interstate commerce regulations, a court order would be necessary to authorize such Joint oa e nation. King said there are no Im mediate plana for aucb service. NEW YORK, Nov. 23, (AP) Pre siding Justice Edward R. Pinch, of the appellate division of the supreme court, today granted Mrs. Cllorja Mor gan Vanderbllt's application for an order requiring Supreme Court Jus tice John P. Carew to show cause why a writ should not be Issued re quiring him to sustain or dismiss the writ of habeas corpus through which she sought custody of her 10-yesr-old helresa daughter. The order is returnable In the ap pellate division of the supreme court next Friday. Justice Carew. In an order signed this week, declared the daughter. Oiorla Laura Vanderblit, a ward of the supreme court and named her paternal aunt, Mrs. Harry Payne Whitney, as legal custodian. NATIONAL GOLF TOURNEYS SET SAT.KM Or Nnv 2.1 CAP, A nt ' income to the Oregon liquor control commission of 8 1 07,069 during the month of October swelled the total profit figure since the state stores and agencies opened until October 81 to 86B3.331, It was shown In the audit completed at the secretary of state's office. Of the aggregate net profit, in come from stores and agencies ac counted for 8410,616, revenue from taxes 8184,411, and licenses 888,304. Sales yielded a profit of 884.406 dur ing October, while 833.308 from taxes and 82A6 from licenses made up the balance for the month. Aggregate sales since the stores opened have now passed the 83.000, 000 mark. It was reported. Total sales during October reached a new high of 8380,894, while the operation cost percentage was the lowest yet. selling price for the month, averaging only 6. 1 A per cent of the Liquor commission officials stated there was cash on hand sufficient to retire the 8260,000 In abort-term debt certificates recently Issued by the state treasurer. It was also announced that prob ably the commission would have 260,000 more In cash for relief pur pones between now and the end of the year, and If so the state would not be forced to sell 8260.000 addi tional certificates of Indebtedness. A Community Chest meeting was held Thursday afternoon, at which officers were re-elected for the com ing year, with Eugene Thorndtke, president; Mrs. Leonard Carpenter, vice-president and Miss Ruth Meusel, secretary. For the success of the drive, Prank Hull, manager; M. N. Hogan, "gen eral," and Mr. Thorndlke wore given votes of thanks. At the meeting were George Prey. Captain O. R. Durham, Irry Schade. Mrs. J. C. 8. Weill. Mrs. Leonard Carpenter. Mrs. DMph Phipps, Miss Helen Carlton, Mrs R. E. Green, J. C Mann, Eugene Thorndlke, Prank Hull M. N. Hogan and Miss Meusel. (Continued on Page Sixteen.. EST PORTLAND, Nov. 23. (P) Dazed, weak and emaciated, Alvin H. Scot-, 41, was held In the county Jail hers today on a charge of conspiracy grow ing out of the kidnaping last year of Charles P. Urschel, Oklahoma mil lionaire, for whose release 8200.000 was paid his kidnapers. "Am I supposed to be guilty of a'l that?" Scott asked after United States Commissioner Franer had read tha Information. "I oint' guilty of any of that," the man said. "I don't know why you got me here, or ev-ri how X got here." Had Ransom Money. Scott waa critically Injured in sn automobile accident near Roseburg on November 2. Until yesterday he was held In the hospital for treatment of a skull fracture and other in Juries. Federal agents said they found m his possession about 81.300 of the ran som money paid the kidnapers of Urschel, ' He was removed from the hospital ( Continued on Page Five) TIME IS RIPE FOR E LOS A. T DIZZY DEMANDS ' $25,000 SALARY CARLOAD OF FANS A carload of Hood River football fans will arrive here about 8 o'clock Saturday morning, according to word received this afternoon by A. 8. Ros enbatim of the Southern Pacific. Although cilfcpatchea from Hood River had Indicated arrival of the team yesterday evening. It was staU'd that the grtdmen will arrive an fthts evening's train from the north. Philip V Perre Fnimd ! IN GLENDALE TODAY PORTLAND, Nov. 21 f AP) Fun eral services were held today In Olendale. calif., for Arthur B. M-:-'Kenrie, widely known Oregon aviator, i who died tn the Veterans hospital In commencing September 0. NEW YORK. Nor. 23 (ff) rhe United flutes Oolf aasoeiatlon todiy announced that the 1935 opfn cham pionship would be played st Pitts burgh, June 6. 7 and 8. and the na tional amateur at cierelsnd the week BARCELONA, Spain (UPl The that cny iuesaay. original document signed bT Philip MacKenzle and Clyde Pangborn. V on Jan. 16. 1716. decreeing the end noted flier, enliited in the army air cf the autonomous liberties of Cat- wrure together and after the war Ionia, was diro'erd In the suuremr ergsged barn-storming toura over I provincial courts archives here. the country. Date of the annual meeting wit eet for January 8, t the Waldo Astoria hotel. New York. The open will be played over '-he Oakmont course and the amateur t the country club, LOUISVILLE, Ky.. Not. 21 (JP,-- impressed by the mention of sevs.i figures In the big deal by which the, St. Louis Cardinals may be for havej been) sold to Lew Wente millionaire Oklahoma oil man. the great rlzv! Dean had named two figures less 20.000 as his take It or leave It Hil ary for next season's work with tht world s champions. DlMy came to the big major-mmo, league auction sales here on some In dependent business, but Immediately was cornered by the Cardinal boaa-a who wanted him to sign his 1938 con tract, "1 11 take 125 O.JOno more, no ltss,1 arv-b un th anrLl -triat n'.tv-hliw I hero. UHLAN, GREAT TROTTER, GOES TO HORSE HEAVEN SANTA BARBARA, C al., Nov. 23. (API Just six neeka shy of his 81st btrthOey, Uhlan, great trotting horse, waa dead today. The gelding. In re tirement for more than te n y ta ra, died yesterday of old age at the C- K. O. Billings estate near here. The horse was the holder of numerous trot ting-to-wagon records, and In 1912 earned the title of "the fastest gelding," trotting a mile In 1:88. PORTLAND CONTRACTORS LOW ON ROAD PROJECT PORTLAND, Ore.. Not. 21. (AP) Schmeer, Williams and Oenlemann of Portland, mere low bidders at 849, 728 for surfacing 8 1 miles of he Pendleton -John Day national forest highway, when blda mere opened at the office of the United flutea bur eau of public toads here today. LOS ANGELES, Cal.. Nov. 23. (AP) The strike of some 1600 Pacific Electric railway trainmen and al lied workers called for 2 a. m. to morrow waa postponed today until 2 a. m. Monday In orders Issued by International union officials here. In announcing the strike postpone ment, the union leaders said they had received instructions from Inter national headquarters and that no doubt the purpose was "to provide time for appointment of a president's emergency board" to settle the atrike Issues. .0. SITE IS DONATED WASHINGTON, Not. 28. (AP) The treasury department aald today that It had accepted a site for a new federal building at Grants Pass, Ore. donated by the Southern Paciflo rail road. The new site Is at Slith and F streets. The department reoently cancelled all previous applications for a stte for the building and opened Inves tigation of conditions In the city, After studying the offer made by the railroad company, It was accepted. BOSTON, Not. 23. (AP) Donald R. Rlchberg, executive director of the national emergency council, today said "the time Is ripe" for private Industry to step tn and help take up the slack of unemployment. Rlch berg came to Boston to address the New England conference and the statement waa made In an Interview before his speech. He said there was no question that business conditions had improved In recent months. He said also that many business men had come to the belief that decentralization of Indus try would be a potent factor in Im proving conditions. He pointed out that unless private Industry did step Into the breach It might be necessary for the govern ment to follow somo other course In furnishing employment. He said the government did not wish to go Into business but that It could do such things as under-writing home build ing projects which In time mould be self-llquldatlng. Tills already has been done on a small scale, he added. SALEM. Nov. 23 (AP) The weekly report of the Industrial accident commisalon today listed only ona death, that of Clarence Esler. Port land dairyman, among Oregon In duatrles. Accidents totaled 849. OF SACRAMENTO. Cal . Not. JJ (flV A wa.k'a output of gold th.lr loji. two robtxra who aKufd holdup In minner romlndful of Vh ata,0 coch bandit of an tarll.r era, w.ra wld'l; ought In th, foothill of northern California today, The two mad an apparently auo manful tr aftr forcing ih; mfr.ih.ra of lh enw of th Tut.a Comolldato: Oold company dredrf to aurrndr t pt.tol point betwr-tn 1.400 and l 900 In old amalgam All road, wtr watched today jy nhentf'a deputlt In Yuba and nrariy eounti. BHVKRIV UtU.S, Calif., Nov. 22. If Siiicdlpy Butler don't tnke Hint job of ninrch tnp down IVnnsjlvnnia at the head of Wall Street's fichtiiis briifnde, I would liliO to get my application in. I got the crey horse. It won't be mieh a novelty as people tliinlt. It's not tho first time thnt Wall Street lias Imd tho country. Well Sir, here at home nnd the news don't Inst but a day, but find 'cm off on an island somewhere thev Ret. about, ft week's run in the papers. Yours, 9 l7KeN.uM SriuiML, la, f
